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to his rented SUV, Jake pulled out his cell phone and called Will to see how he was doing.
    When Will answered, the background noise sounded like he was in some sort of bar.
    “Hey man, everything is going well on this end,” Will said loudly into the phone. Jake could hear a female, presumably Scarlett, laughing in the background.
    “So the blonde has trapped you with her feminine wiles?” Jake replied.
    “Pretty much,” Will laughed into the phone.
    “Be careful, Will. She seems as if she has another agenda, since she just whisked you away like that,” Jake warned.
    “Hold on a second. . . . Yeah, I am. She seems pretty harmless to me, Jake, but I do think she has wrongly assumed I am buying the airport, and I haven’t told her anything different,” Will said seriously. He must have stepped out of her earshot, Jake thought.
    “Okay, let’s keep it that way for now. We can clear everything up soon enough,” Jake said.
    “Gotcha. She is really fun to hang out with, Jake,” Will told him.
    “Well, have fun then. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do,” Jake laughed.
    “So I won’t do anything at all except work? I definitely plan on doing things you wouldn’t do,” Will teased.
    “See ya later, man,” Jake said.
                  He ended his call with Will, as he was pulling out of the airport. Since it had been hours since he had eaten, he decided he would go into town, grab a quick dinner and call it a night. He wanted to get back to the airport first thing in the morning, and between his super-early business meeting, the flight to Pinesville, and perusing the airport, he was beat.
    He pulled onto the well-lit main street of Pinesville. It was only about a five minute drive from the airport, and even though it was pretty dark outside, he appreciated the quaint, homey feel that exuded from the downtown area. He parked in front of a promising looking diner located on the main drag of older buildings.
    When he stepped inside, the aroma of homemade food greeted him. His stomach rumbled in anticipation. Sitting at a booth, Jake quickly scanned the menu, decided on the Salisbury steak special, and looked around while he waited for the waitress to come to his table. The diner was small and lined with hunter green booths, complete with vinyl tablecloths and plastic menus. What it lacked for in aesthetic, it made up for in welcoming warmth.
    The diner was fairly crowded for it to be nearing eight on a weeknight in such a small town. Jake was interrupted from his observations when a middle-aged woman came over to take his order. The tag on her apron informed him that her name was Glenda.
    “Hey there, hon. What can I get you?” Glenda asked with a kind smile.
    “Glenda, I would like the special and whatever dessert you recommend,” Jake told her.
    She walked away to put in his order, and the other waitresses flocked to her, hoping for a tidbit of gossip about the newcomer, but Jake didn’t mind. He knew that it was the norm in small towns like this.
    While he savored every bite of the steak followed by a blackberry cobbler topped with fresh whipped cream that Glenda had promptly brought over, Jake’s thoughts wandered to the intriguing woman he had startled earlier in the day. Abby was her name , he recalled. I wonder what she is doing now .

Chapter Two
     
    Abby watched the fire hiss, crackle, and resettle, thinking her own thoughts as she ruffled Connor’s fur. What would she do if the sale went through and Scarlett did not succeed with her ridiculous plan? The thought wasn’t pleasant.
    Abby loved her job as a plane mechanic, but she had once assumed a husband and children would be in the picture, too. She had cast those dreams aside a couple of years ago after the third man to whom she had attempted to give her heart hopped on a plane after she revealed her feelings for him. She found that it was easier to put up a wall around her barely-mended heart than to contend with more men just